Sentence examples for rather privileged from inspiring English sources

"I feel rather privileged that this completely mysterious practical joke should be played on me for so long," he said.

And although for most of the years since I have been a rather privileged writer, I identify more closely than perhaps I should with those social workers.

It's about life during the German Occupation of France, about being a bright, curious, rather privileged child, about growing up and, perhaps most important, about the compulsive need to find meaning, if not order, through recollection.

Then you're brought back to earth and you realize you're in a rather privileged position".

You're probably rather privileged if you're reading this on whatever electronic device you have.

It is, I know, a rather privileged hobby to have, and we are not a particularly well-off family.

The scrappy left-wing pamphleteer had won late-life fame as a reporter who turned his deafness to advantage by relying on written sources rather than privileged access.

It was about ideals, self-determination and being able to live in a world where merit is what's valued rather than privileged people keeping you in your place.

"I was in a rather uniquely privileged position among British artists, because I had lived in New York for a long time where there were plenty of Picassos to look at," he told me on the phone last week.

And although in general driving in New York is the sort of activity that makes you feel suicidal rather than privileged, as far as not feeling at home in one's own home (great quote, by the way), I can't recommend it enough.

As well as his own compositions, he sang songs - in his endlessly melancholic, wonderfully human voice - about broken hopes, nowhere towns, and time served in jail as if they were his own, but his background lay in a rather more privileged place.